Google techie who conducts job interviews reveals topics asked in screening round

A software engineer with Google in Hyderabad, who conducts job interviews as part of her extra community contribution, has recently shared a few tips and tricks that candidates can possibly use while prepping for their interview with the tech giant.

Anu Sharma, 22, had earlier told Moneycontrol that in the last couple of months, she has interviewed more than 15 candidates with each interview ranging from about 45 minutes to one hour.

Taking to X, she wrote, "These topics are asked in Google screening round! I got rejected here twice because most eliminations happen at this stage, so clearing it should be your priority."

Sharma recommended candidates focus on the following pointers:
Arrays: Sliding window, two pointers, binary search, sorting, greedy algorithms
Strings: Palindromes, pattern matching
Stacks and queues: Next greater/smaller element, BFS, flood fill
Trees: Binary trees, BSTs, traversals
Graphs: DFS, BFS, Dijkstra’s, MST (Prim’s/Kruskal’s), DSU
Heaps: Min/max heap, Kth smallest/largest element
Recursion and backtracking (very very important): Permutations and combinations

"Don’t waste time on topics like segment trees and tries, as they are rarely asked in this round. Instead, practice time and space complexities for the data structures and algorithms you use," Sharma added.